adazzle
adazzle adjective: illuminated so as to dazzle.
Adjective
adazzle (comparative more adazzle, superlative most adazzle)
- Illuminated so as to dazzle.
- […] let [a poet] speak of a man-of-war in a style that shows he knows a frigate from a three-decker, a cutter from a schooner […] , and Neptune shall be to him Apollo, the Nereids the Muses, and every line shall be a line of light—all a-dazzle with appropriate words, surcharged with the imagery of...1832, John Wilson, Noctes Ambrosianæ No. LX, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 32, No. 190, February 1832, p. 281
- The dust rose up in thick clouds, thickened yet more by the sunlight held in them; for the dead air of the hollow was a-dazzle.1927, T. E. Lawrence, chapter 5, in Revolt in the Desert,, London: Jonathan Cape, page 76
- Synonyms:
- dazzling
Examples of adazzle in a sentence
- It was an æsthetic education to live within those walls, to wander from room to room, from the Soanesque library to the Chinese drawing-room, adazzle with gilt pagodas and nodding mandarins […]1945, Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, London: Chapman & Hall, Book 1, Chapter 4, p. 72:
- By the time they entered Washington, it was dark and the lights of the city were all adazzle.2013, Brenda George, Song of the Shenandoah, page 147:
Synonyms of adazzle
Forms of adazzle
| comparative | more adazzle |
|---|---|
| superlative | most adazzle |
Origin of adazzle
From a- + dazzle.
Questions about adazzle
- What does adazzle mean?
- Adazzle means illuminated so as to dazzle.
- How do you use adazzle in a sentence?
- It was an æsthetic education to live within those walls, to wander from room to room, from the Soanesque library to the Chinese drawing-room, adazzle with gilt pagodas and nodding mandarins […]
- What part of speech is adazzle?
- Adazzle is an adjective.
Words near adazzle in the dictionary
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